Monthly Archives: February, 2010
Dublin City University’s Silver Surfers
WHILE SENATOR DAN BOYLE was attempting to bring down the government last week with the social networking site Twitter, JJ Higgins was doing something slightly more worthwhile. He was sending his first email. JJ (62), a retired postal worker, is among a growing number of older internet users in Ireland. A recent survey by the [...]
Maintenance Stuff
I have Just updated my DNS servers so there might be a few broken pages on the site for the next few days.
George Lee-ving
Former RTÉ broadcaster George Lee resigned this morning from the Fine Gael Party after only nine months in office. Mr Lee tendered his resignation to party officials saying he was unhappy with his role in the party which he described as ‘very limited.’ “Despite my best efforts I have had virtually no influence or input [...]
Mental Health Discrimination in Ireland
Amnesty Ireland has commissioned top DCU researchers to conduct the Republic’s first nationwide study into mental health discrimination. The five month study is part of Amnesty International’s larger three year study of mental health issues. The Irish study will look into the levels of discrimination faced by people with mental health problems. “Mental health issues [...]
Browser Wars
There was a marked decline in the use of Internet Explorer in 2009 according to the web monitoring company AT Institute. Use of the browser fell by 7.8% in the six months to December. Firefox also saw a slight decrease of about 1% in the same period. Chrome and Safari were the main beneficiaries with [...]
Health and Online Safety
Apparently the HSE is a fan, looking over my stats this morning it seems a member of the executive was having a look around one of my sites. There is nothing unusual in this, but I would have thought that the national health service would be using better equipment than IE6 . Ok, so the [...]
